The circle of water justice in the history of Iran

Q1 Earth and Planetary Sciences
Majid Labbaf Khaneiki, Abdullah Saif Al-Ghafri
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Abstract

This article starts with the archaeology of justice in an attempt to get to the historical roots of the Iranians’ conception of justice. Justice has been founded on two conceptual pillars “social order” and “divine legitimacy” that were synthesized into the Iranian form of justice. Water justice has not meant equal distribution of water resources, but it has been more of an allocation system that distributed water among different territories according to their dissimilar geopolitical values.

This article explains how a causal relationship between justice, production system and political power could bring about the idea of the “circle of justice”. However, the circle of justice was an ideal model that could not find expression in real world, due to the taxation system whose inevitable malfunction led to the formation of another cycle called the “circle of water justice”.

This article draws an analogy between the historical polities and the present Iranian government in terms of “the circle of water justice”. After the 1979 revolution, this circle was based on an amalgamation between the traditional conception of justice and modern political philosophies, which prescribed socio-economic inequalities in favor of the least advantaged classes. Although “the circle of water justice” served to reinforce the political power, it fueled ecological degradation and social conflicts in the long run. This article concludes that Iran’s hydraulic mission is not the cause of their water crisis, but it is only the result of a subtle mechanism named “the circle of water justice”. Iran’s growing water crisis cannot be defused in the absence of a structural reform in “the circle of water justice”.

伊朗历史上的水正义圈
本文从正义考古学入手,试图找到伊朗人正义观念的历史根源。正义建立在两个概念支柱上:“社会秩序”和“神圣的合法性”,这两个支柱被综合成伊朗形式的正义。水正义并不意味着水资源的平等分配,它更多的是一种分配制度,根据不同的地缘政治价值在不同的地区之间分配水。本文阐述了正义、生产制度和政治权力三者之间的因果关系是如何产生“正义圈”概念的。然而,正义的循环是一个理想的模型,无法在现实世界中得到表达,因为税收制度的不可避免的失灵导致了另一个循环的形成,即“水正义的循环”。本文从“水正义圈”的角度对伊朗历史政体与现政府进行类比。1979年革命后,这个圈子的基础是传统正义观念与现代政治哲学的融合,后者规定社会经济不平等有利于最弱势阶级。“水正义圈”虽然起到了强化政治权力的作用,但从长远来看,却助长了生态退化和社会矛盾。本文的结论是,伊朗的水利任务不是其水危机的原因,而只是一种名为“水正义圈”的微妙机制的结果。在“水正义圈”缺乏结构性改革的情况下,伊朗日益严重的水危机不可能得到化解。
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Water Security
Water Security Earth and Planetary Sciences-Oceanography
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8.50
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期刊介绍: Water Security aims to publish papers that contribute to a better understanding of the economic, social, biophysical, technological, and institutional influencers of current and future global water security. At the same time the journal intends to stimulate debate, backed by science, with strong interdisciplinary connections. The goal is to publish concise and timely reviews and synthesis articles about research covering the following elements of water security: -Shortage- Flooding- Governance- Health and Sanitation
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